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[quote=Anonymous]From what I understand, most clubs have politics and problems--I think that's what happens when we turn youth soccer into a machine that also makes money for a small few in each club. That said, I watched JH coach my kid on the Girls 2014 fifth team last year. Even with 2-3 guests (usually from the third team), his fifth team players really improved from Fall to Spring. Maybe they aren't ECNL-level players (or at least not yet), but they learned how to play and enjoy the game--isn't that important in a world where most of the kids across all of these teams aren't going to play D1 or get called up to a national team? Two went from the fifth to third team, two or three went from fifth to fourth team, and two or three who remained on the fifth team could easily have gone to the fourth team. I watched the first, second and third teams practice--his team wasn't even close to their levels of play when the Fall season started. Positioning, passing, anticipating, dribbling--none of it was there. By the final tournament of the Spring, they looked like a soccer team. Maybe he never played, but I thought he produced results. And as someone else on here said, the kids seemed to respond to him and enjoyed going to practice. He was quick to yank a player after making a mistake, but took the time on the bench to explain what he wanted to see and then was just as quick to put them back in. I think the issue some parents have with JH is that while he could joyfully and skillfully suffer kids needing improvement in their game, he could not suffer obnoxious parents.[/quote]

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